#misery

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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.


Aldous Huxley


#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.


Thomas Jefferson


#first #government #honorable #misery #office

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.


Jonathan Mayhew


#as far as #case #far #join #lies

There is winning and there is misery.


Bill Parcells


#winning

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.


Addison Mizner


#does #loves #misery #misery loves company #reciprocate

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.


Martha Washington


#depends #dispositions #experience #greater #happiness

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.


Steven Pressfield


#artist #miserable #misery #write #writer

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.



Jarod Kintz


#change #chivalrous #hope #miserable #misery

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#depression #hardship #misery #change

He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness.


George MacDonald


#heart #love #misery #thunder #voice